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Reasonable people disagree on whether a 5-2-2 vote should pass.
However I expect Abstain votes to become much less common if this proposal passes. Deprived of the option to vote "Soft No", TalkBoard members who are on the fence or who do not want to take the time to study the issue might step up and vote plain old "No". Reducing the number of abstentions is another benefit of this change, IMHO.
I predict that this change will completely eliminate instances of more than one abstention unless the abstentions are for conflict of interest reasons.